A jolly tale of Bond-related misanthropy

I got a text earlier today from someone I used to work with (I see little-to-nothing of him these days outside of Facebook), asking to borrow SPECTRE as his son had been set a Media Studies homework on it and 'you're the biggest Bond fan I know'.

Resentful of both being bothered on a Sunday and of his son's homework sounding like a helluva lot more fun than any I ever had to do, in response I pretended I'd accidentally scratched the disc quite badly the last time I'd watched it meaning that it now didn't play properly.

Actually, present-day films might be better suited for a media studies homework (depending on the age of the students and their level of skills) because older films use a slightly different film language (often a question of style); but it might be easier to give them something they might be acquainted with anyway. This is very clever, actually; chances that half of the class has seen the latest Bond film are pretty good. So they have seen the film some time ago and only have to focus on the details now. And SP does feature some fabulous scenes to work with, come on.

I got a text earlier today from someone I used to work with (I see little-to-nothing of him these days outside of Facebook), asking to borrow SPECTRE as his son had been set a Media Studies homework on it and 'you're the biggest Bond fan I know'.

Resentful of both being bothered on a Sunday and of his son's homework sounding like a helluva lot more fun than any I ever had to do, in response I pretended I'd accidentally scratched the disc quite badly the last time I'd watched it meaning that it now didn't play properly.

What a terrible person I am .

Accidentally? I'm quite sure any damage to a SP disc is shamelessly deliberate.

Now now ... I'm not crazy about the 'Brofeld' thing or the attempt made at retconning all of Craig's Bonds via the SPECTRE ring. But I don't dislike it anywhere near as much as the rest of this place seems to.

Why bother? I have to wrap my mind around Sex and the City.My university sees things differently. It was decided that MY "time is up". Simply like that. Hurt feelings of a (male) professor are more important than (Bond) research. Now I have to listen to feminism when I know that it does not exist. At least no-one cares or bothers when it comes to the fact that my research can be discarded for unprofessional reasons. I mean, it is openly stated that he can do as he pleases and if he does not get along with me (you name it!), that's it. First thing he did after I was forced to leave the department was try to get in touch at campus. This is ALL about his emotions and I am sure that someone must have figured. I dread that stupid campus because of that encounter.And no-one cares if I'm skilled or not. My Bond research was supposed to die. It didn't.But I will never teach.

That is your jolly tale of Bond-related misanthropy.

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Actually, present-day films might be better suited for a media studies homework (depending on the age of the students and their level of skills) because older films use a slightly different film language (often a question of style); but it might be easier to give them something they might be acquainted with anyway. This is very clever, actually; chances that half of the class has seen the latest Bond film are pretty good. So they have seen the film some time ago and only have to focus on the details now. And SP does feature some fabulous scenes to work with, come on.

I wonder how many li'l blighters have been assigned Black Panther so they can research the history of Wakanda?

Now now ... I'm not crazy about the 'Brofeld' thing or the attempt made at retconning all of Craig's Bonds via the SPECTRE ring. But I don't dislike it anywhere near as much as the rest of this place seems to.

Although it's no Skyfall, granted.

I've said this elsewhere--or perhaps it was here?--but if Kubrick had directed a Bond film it would have resembled SP. Now that doesn't make SP good necessarily, but it does lend a certain aesthetic interest, IMO.

I got a text earlier today from someone I used to work with (I see little-to-nothing of him these days outside of Facebook), asking to borrow SPECTRE as his son had been set a Media Studies homework on it and 'you're the biggest Bond fan I know'.

Resentful of both being bothered on a Sunday and of his son's homework sounding like a helluva lot more fun than any I ever had to do, in response I pretended I'd accidentally scratched the disc quite badly the last time I'd watched it meaning that it now didn't play properly.